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    Research Handbook on Law and Systems Theory by Rogowski, Ralf;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
    • Date of Publication 24 March 2026

    • ISBN 9781035336487
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages448 pages
    • Size 244x169 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    This Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of systems theory for analysing law in modern society. Expert contributors examine key theoretical developments and core approaches to systems theory, illustrating the strengths of this transdisciplinary theoretical framework across research fields and areas of law.

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    Long description:

    This Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of systems theory for analysing law in modern society. Expert contributors examine key theoretical developments and core approaches to systems theory, illustrating the strengths of this transdisciplinary theoretical framework across research fields and areas of law.



    Chapters cover a range of areas of law that this approach can be applied to, including constitutional law and constitutionalism, contract law, environmental law, social work and labour law. The Research Handbook draws on detailed case studies to investigate how this theoretical framework can be used in diverse contexts, exploring human rights, hate speech, climate change governance and corruption through this lens. It also highlights the role of systems theory across technology and business, from artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies to illegality in organisations, the regulation of risk and investment arbitration tribunals.



    This forward-looking Research Handbook will be valuable to students and scholars of systems theory and research methods in law, as well as jurisprudence more widely, as it provides an informative analysis of the latest research and thinking in this dynamic field.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents
    1 Introduction to law and systems theory 1
    Ralf Rogowski
    PART I THEORY
    2 Legal autopoiesis and its limits 11
    Marcelo Neves
    3 Emergence and personification: How the law makes non-human
    entities speak 30
    Gunther Teubner
    4 Modern law and the military system: The missing soldier? 48
    Chris Thornhill
    5 Responsive sociology of law 68
    Alfons Bora
    6 Law and critical systems theory 79
    João P. Bachur
    7 Systems theory, law and complexity theory 94
    Thomas E. Webb and Steven Wheatley
    8 The resonance capacity of the legal system 107
    Hannah Vermaßen and André Brodocz
    9 Systems theory and legal aesthetics: Thou shall not differentiate! 124
    Francesco Forzani and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
    10 Law, society: “systemic” vs “systematic”? 137
    Anton Schütz
    PART II RESEARCH FIELDS
    11 Systems theory and the regulation of knowledge 152
    Karl-Heinz Ladeur
    12 Law and artificial intelligence: A matter of couplings 168
    Aldo Mascareño
    13 Systems theory and global civil society 185
    Germano Schwartz
    14 Systems theory and constitutionalism 200
    Alberto Febbrajo
    15 Climate change governance: A systems theory analysis 214
    Karin Buhmann
    16 Systems theory and the regulation of corruption in developing countries 229
    Chukwuemeka Castro Nwabuzor
    17 Illegality in organisations and systems theory 246
    Stefan Kühl
    18 Systems theory and the legal regulation of risk 266
    Inger Johanne Sand
    19 Social work and modern social systems theory 278
    Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen
    PART III AREAS OF LAW
    20 Systems theory and human rights 292
    Gert Verschraegen
    21 Systems theory and contract law 307
    Dan Wielsch
    22 Environmental law and autopoietic systems theory 320
    John Paterson
    23 Systems theory and investment arbitration tribunals 334
    Rafael Quintero Godínez
    24 Reflexive regulation of cryptocurrencies 353
    Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade
    25 Systems theory and the regulation of anti-discrimination 372
    Kirandeep Kaur and Ralf Rogowski
    26 Systems theory and hate speech 385
    Nico Buitendag
    27 Systems theory and procedure 398
    Stefan Machura
    28 Systems theory, law, and the digital media 409
    Bernard Keenan
    Index 419

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